The latest fuel prices are out and on average both Petrol and Diesel have gone up one p per litre at our pumps.

Some resellers are stil selling for 138.9p a litre Diesel and 130.9 Petrol, but they will move up shortly with all of the others going by past experience.

I've been running Stoke Petrol Price Watch, since 2008 keeping an eye on the best price stations in Stoke-on-Trent. And even though the price per barrel has dropped since stability in Lybia returned somewhat, we've never seen that stability back at the pumps.

Before we get the same arguments of take the bus, people have to realise taking the bus is the least of our worries. The price of oil has a affect on the price a farmer has to fuel his vechicles to the price of fertalisers made out of oil, which he sprays on his crops.

The price of everything we wear, eat, touch, service is all tied into the price of oil in one way or another.

Check out the best prices at the pumps by all means, but we need as a nation to come up with alternatives.

Comments

There's some great bus services round here. Let the bus companies pay your fuel bills. All it takes is a reappraisal of your travelling arrangements, an overhaul of your mindset. YOU DON'T NEED A BLOODY CAR! These fuel price are now seriously getting beyond a joke. Can anybody really afford to run a car these days? I haven't owned a car for seven years and haven't missed it in the slightest. I'm quids in and feel fitter than I've ever felt. If on the other hand, you find it completely impossible to be parted from your little pressed steel box, there's nothing I can say that will make you see my viewpoint. But, be honest, now, aren't you getting just the teeniest bit peed off with being ripped off for the dubious privilege of car ownership. Don't you sometimes feel a bit like the Top Gear clowns? It is all getting a bit farcical when you come to think about it.

It would be interesting to know how much influence super markets have had in either raising or lowering the price of fuel over the past 15 or so years.
Let's not forget the whopping tax the government takes out of all of this as well.

There is only one way to stop the oil companies from continually ripping us off - Instead of a fuel strike, if all those who use fuel were to target those companies who charge the highest prices.
At the moment the main culprits appear to be the big three, BP, Shell and ESSO, so why do we not organise ourselves and from the 1st of March boycott those providers and fuel up at the smaller independent filling stations.
If we ALL did this and got our friends to do it across the country, then they would soon sit up and take notice. The big companies profits would fall and the independent companies increase their revenue so that they can keep their prices consistent. If they changed and started to abuse us, then they would be boycotted as well.
This needs an organised campaign as the haulage industry did so effectively before.

The only real answer to this is for everyone with a car to go on a petrol/diesel strike.
I suggest we set a date where we all stay away from filling atations.
We should also set dates for future no petrol/diesel buying days, until someone takes us seriously and realises we're not going to take anymore rises in prices of petrol.
We have the power if we want to use it, so come on.

I think i'm right in saying, there's another 3p per litre price rise coming in the autumn. In some petrol stations over her in Northern Ireland they're already charging 147.9p per litre of diesel, that'll push the price to over £1.50 per litre, bloody scandalous eh? So we better come up with those alternatives pretty smartly